Jul 16, 2016

This is kind of a duplicate of my other writing playlist posts, but I got tagged on Tumblr to share five songs that currently inspire my writing, so I figured I'd post them here, too. :) My series greatly revolves around the relationships between characters, whether that be romantic, friendship, or familial. Right now I’m feeling sappy, though, so I’m picking a bunch of romantic songs to go with Book 1 (Colorweaver).

If only I had the guts to feel this wayAnd if only you’d look at me and want to stayAnd if only I’d take you in my arms and sayI won’t go, ‘cause I need youPlease don’t go'Cause I need you now

This song is just so upbeat and sappy and perfect for Adair! It fits how he feels about Blythe and Etri in book 1. They’re serving as his temporary bodyguards on his “adventure” to get his stolen art back, but by the end of the book he wants them to stay with him.

If you’re lost then I will find youAnd if you ask meI’ll lay my life down, not for gloryI’m striving for your loveI’m fightingFor your loveI would tear down any wallAnd for your loveI’ll turn my back on this worldFor your love

Okay, another Hanson song. I could probably make a 25+ song playlist just from this band because their songs fit my style of writing so well. This song is the one I associate with my sentinels (bodyguards/spouses who protect the artists) and Etri falls into this role far more readily than Blythe does. All the lyrics are perfect from his POV and let’s just say the “lay my life down” line isn’t too far from the truth.

Misguided heartMiss play it smartMiss if you want to use that line you better not start, noBut she miscalculatedShe didn’t want to end up jadedAnd this miss decided not to miss out on true loveSo, by changing her misconceptionsShe went in a new directionAnd found inside she felt a connectionShe fell in love

This whole song is basically Blythe’s problem with the whole sentinel thing. Blythe is grey-romantic, she had always been happy to focus on her career, had no interest in relationships, and she had forcibly avoided any contact with artists because she always feared that she would become a sentinel. Then Adair shows up and she’s dragged into acting as his sentinel. She’s conflicted, not just about him, but about her future career because Adair being there is shaking that up.

They say it’s what you makeI say it’s up to fateIt’s woven in my soulI need to let you goYour eyes, they shine so brightI wanna save that lightI can’t escape this nowUnless you show me how

This would be the song of Talan, my antagonist. He’s probably the least antagonistic antagonist ever, though, and it’s just unfortunate circumstances that put him into that role. He’s also Firedrake’s boyfriend and that’s really the reason Talan made the mistake that turned him into the antagonist- he’s trying to protect Dray, but Talan knows very little about humans. Ugh, I want to be able to talk about this but it would give too much away!

Don’t wanna hear your sad songsI don’t wanna feel your painWhen you swear it’s all my fault'Cause you know we’re not the sameNo, we’re not the same, oh, we’re not the sameYeah, we used to stick togetherWe wrote our names in bloodBut I guess you can’t accept that the change is goodIt’s good, it’s good

This is the song I associate with Blythe and Firedrake. They’re siblings in so far as having a blood oath, but it’s been a while since they’ve seen each other and they’ve both changed. Blythe gets so sick of Dray’s crap by about the halfway point of the book that she’s wishing Dray hadn’t shown up again.

Jul 4, 2016

It just occurred to me that I haven't been updating this blog recently. Not because I haven't been working on things, but because everything I've been working on went up on my Tumblr blog. Here's an update so I can keep track here, too!

-Last month I worked on world building for a month of prompts. I'm not going to repost them on this blog because they're mostly just notes for myself, but if you're curious about how I'm building my main country of Concordia, I'll link to the posts. I'm excited for next year when I'll work on these prompts for my other countries!

-Camp NaNoWriMo! I'm working on the second draft of book 1 (Colorweaver) for July. I had about 30k words of this draft to start, but it's been several months since I was able to focus time on one of my novels. Fingers crossed this month I can get a good chunk of this rewritten! I'm posting short updates to my Tumblr daily about that day's writing, but whenever I do something more substantial, I'll share it here.